PEACE is more than joy, and is far deeper than happiness. It is that restful sense that all is well which comes from confiding in the Word of God. Christ Jesus is called “the Lord of Peace.” He is the only Man who ever walked through this world in perfect peace at all times—until in Gethsemane He faced the judgment He was to bear when taking the sinner’s place upon the cross. As a result of that work peace has been made between God and the needy sinner, a peace which is entered into by faith alone. But there is not only peace with God which has to do with the sin-question which has been settled forever. Daily the peace of God is poured into the heart that learns to commit all to Him in prayer.
“There is a calm—the calm of sins forgiven—
Through knowing sin on Christ by God was laid;
Through looking to and resting on His merit,
And knowing that our debt He fully paid.
And there’s a calm about the unknown future;
The earthly road; the fuller life above;
And things unknown—here, and in life’s hereafter—
Vex not the soul who knows that God is Love.”
―J. Denson Smith.